Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-09-16
ORDINANCE NO. 226.

Granting to the parties herein named the
privilege to construct, maintain, and
operate a street railroad in the City
of Sacramento, and granting to them
the right of way for said street rail.
road over, upon, and along certain
streets In the City of Sacramento.
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE CITY
i of Sacramento do ordain as follows:
SECTION !. There is hereby granted TO r. S.
and c. W. Carey their heirs and assigns sub
ject to the provisions of the statutes governing
the City of Sacramento, and subject to the laws
of the State OF California. the right to construct
lay down, repair. maintain and operate for the
term of fifty years from and after the passage OF
this ordinance single or double track street
railway or railroad, with all necessary or con-
Venient tracks for curves turn cuts, switches
sidc-tracks, stations, turntables and append
ages, and to propel cars thereon by horse or mule
power. or by wire ropes running under the
streets and moved by stationary steam engines
or by electricity or electric power, and 10 col
lect, receive and retain fare and compensation
for the use thereof, in, through, on, over, O.
along, and in, through, on, over. and along the
following streets and parts Of streets in the City
OF Sacramento, that is to say Commencing al
the street railroad track now at the center OF
the intersection OF and Twentieth Goth
streets, and running thence along the middle OF
street to Twenty-eighth (2Sth) street also
commencing at the street railroad track at the
center of the intersection of o and Twentieth
(20th) streets, and running thence along o street
to Twenty-eighth street, the same being eXten
sions of the railroad or railway now owned and
operated by said X. >. ana II. W. Carey.
SECTION ,. The rate of fare on such railroad
OF railway must not exceed the sum of five cents
for single fare. wv ~
SECTION 8. The grantees herein named shall
pay TO the City of Sacramento an annual license
of i've dollars upon each car run and operated
upon said railroad or railway, which shall en-
title them TO run, manage and operate theiI
railroad or railway every day in the year.
SECTION 4. The grantees herein named may nj
at any time, with the consent of the Board OF
Trustees of said City of Sacramento, abandon
any part or portion of the franchise hereby
granted, upon filing with the Board of Trustees
of the City of Sacramento written declaration
of such abandonment, particularly describing
the part or portion intended TO be abandoned
The consent of the Board of Trustees TO such
abandonment must also be in writing.
SECTION 5. The rate of speed on said railroad
or railway must not be greater than eight miles
per hour.
SECTION q. The grantees herein named shall
pay and be assessed for the cost ofimproyingthe
portion of the streets street embraced between
or railway. and for two feet each side thereof
and such assessment shall be lien against the
franchise and railroad of said grantees from the
date OF such assessment, and may be collected
in the same manner as other assessments foi
improving streets are collected: and said
grantees shall keep said potion of said street
or streets constantly in repair and flush with the
street and with good crossings.
SECTION Z. If electricity is used no poles shall
be erected in the streets for the use thereof by
said parties.
SECTION 6. This ordinance shall take effect in
mediately EUGENE J. GREGORY,
President Board OF Trustees
Passed September T. 1887.
f. II. MCKEE, Clerk. sl3-I0t